Strong G5536χρῆμα
money
- Transliteration
- chrēma
- Pronunciation
- khray'-mah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
Something useful or needed that is wealth price: - money riches.
Detailed definition
χρῆμα, -τος, τό
(χράομαι) [in LXX: Jos.22:8, 2Ch.1:11-12 (נֶכֶס), Job.27:17 (כֶּסֶף), etc.; frequently in Sir (5:1, 8, al.), 2 and 4 Mac;]
a thing that one uses or needs (and generally, a matter, event, business); hence in pl.,
__(a) wealth, riches: οἱ τά χ. ἔχοντες, Mrk.10:23-24, Luk.18:24;
__(b) money: Act.8:18, 20 24:26; sing. (rare in cl.) of a special sum of money, Act.4:37.†
(AS)
(χράομαι) [in LXX: Jos.22:8, 2Ch.1:11-12 (נֶכֶס), Job.27:17 (כֶּסֶף), etc.; frequently in Sir (5:1, 8, al.), 2 and 4 Mac;]
a thing that one uses or needs (and generally, a matter, event, business); hence in pl.,
__(a) wealth, riches: οἱ τά χ. ἔχοντες, Mrk.10:23-24, Luk.18:24;
__(b) money: Act.8:18, 20 24:26; sing. (rare in cl.) of a special sum of money, Act.4:37.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5536 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- money4
- rich3
First verses
- Mark 10:23And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
- Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
- Luke 18:24And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
- Acts 4:37Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- Acts 8:18And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
- Acts 8:20But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
- Acts 24:26He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χρῆμα, ατος, τό:
(χράομαι):— need, in the phrase παρὰ χ. or παραχρῆμα (which see); a thing that one needs or uses,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.9f (_plural_))]: hence in plural, goods, property (χρήματα λέγομεν πάντα ὅσων ἡ ἀξία νομίσματι μετρεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b26), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.78, 203, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 320, 407, etc.)]; of temple-treasures, heirlooms, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Mnemos.” 57.208 (Argos, 6th c.BC))]; τὰ ἱρὰ χ. τῆς Ἀθηναίης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28, compare 9.81; θησαυρούς.. ἄλλα τε χρύσεα ἄφατα χ. [prev. author] 7.190; πολλῶν χ. ἐξαίρετον ἄνθος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 954; πειρῶ τὸν πλοῦτον χρήματακαὶ κτήματα κατασκευάζειν· ἔστι δὲ χ. μὲν τοῖς ἀπολαύειν ἐπισταμένοις, κ. δὲ τοῖς κτᾶσθαι δυναμένοις 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.28; τοῖς σκεύεσι καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν ἀποθήκη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.97)]; πρόβατα καὶ ἄλλα χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.4; τὰ ἀνδράποδα.. καὶ χρήματα τὰ πλεῖστα ἀπέδρα αὐτούς [prev. work] 7.8.12: proverbial, χρήματα ψυχὴ πέλεται.. βροτοῖσι)] a man's money is his life, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 686)]; χρήματ᾽ ἄνηρ 'money makes the man', [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 49, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.11; ἐν χρήμασιν οἰκεῖ πατρώοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 757, compare “Ch.” 135; also χρημάτων πένητες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 37; τὰ χρήματ᾽ ἐνεχυράζομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 241; χρήματα πορίζειν [prev. author] “Ec.” 236; ἄτιμοι ἦσαν τὰ σώματα, τὰ δὲ χ. εἶχον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.74; χρημάτων ἥσσων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 50; χρημάτων κρείσσων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; χρήμασι νικώμενος [prev. passage]; χρημάτων ἀδωρότατος [prev. work] 65; ἐλπίδα χρήμασιν ὠνητήν [prev. author] 3.40; μήτε χρημάτων φειδομένους μήτε πόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 78a; ζημιοῦσθαι χρήμασιν [prev. author] “Lg.” 721b)]; even of debts, διαλῦσαι τὰ χ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.12; δεθέντ᾽ ἐπὶ χρήμασιν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ [prev. author] 24.168.—Acc. to 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.87 the _Ionic dialect_ used also the _sing._ in this sense, and so we find, ἐπὶ κόσῳ ἂν χρήματι..)]; for how much money.. ? Answ. ἐπ᾽ οὐδενί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.38; ταύτην (i.e. τὴν χλανίδα) πωλέω μὲν οὐδενὸς χ. δίδωμι δὲ ἄλλως [prev. work] 139)]; also in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 197)], χ. δ᾽ ὃ μὲν Διόθεν καὶ σὺν δίκῃ ἀνδρὶ γένητα; in Attic dialect, οὐδενὸς ἂν χ. δεξάμενοι at no price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.4)]; and in later Prose, fund, sum of money, Arch. f. Religionswiss.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (10.211 (Cos, 2nd c.BC))]; τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ χ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.106, cf. NT.Act.4.37, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.20; χρήματα)]merchandise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 90, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.37, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.74)]; property, substance, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.161 (from Cyrene).)]
II generally, thing, matter, affair, especially in Epic dialect and Ionic dialect, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 332, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 344, 402; χρημάτων ἄελπτον οὐδέν 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 74; πάντων χ. δικαιότατον 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 8; πρῶτον χρημάτων πάντων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.145)]; ἀντὶ πάντων χ. on every account, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.21; δεινότατον ἁπάντων χρημάτων [prev. work] 1)]; πᾶν χ. ἐκίνεε 'left no stone unturned', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.96)]; τεκμαίρει χρῆμ᾽ ἕκαστον 'deeds show the man', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.74; πάντων χ. μέτρον ἄνθρωπος 5th c.BC: Protagoras Philosophus 1)]; περαίνεται τὸ χ. the issue is being decided, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 47)]: plural, simply, things, ὁμοῦ πάντα χ. ἦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 440a, “Euthd.” 294d, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.2.1.)]
II.2 χρῆμα is frequently expressed where it might be omitted, δεινὸν χ. ἐποιεῦντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.16; οἷόν τι χ. ποιήσειε [prev. work] 138)]; ἐς ἀφανὲς χ. ἀποστέλλειν ἀποικίην to send out a colony without any certain destination, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.150)]; frequently in Trag., τί χρῆμ; ={τί}; what? τί χ. λεύσσ; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 300, “Ch.” 10)]; or why? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 512)]; so in genitive, τοῦ χ. (i.e. ἕνεκα); [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1223; τί χ. δρᾷ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 288, compare “Ph.” 1231; τί χ. πάσχε; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 909)]; τί δ᾽ ἐστὶ χρῆμ; what is the matter? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 885; πικρόν τί μοι δοκεῖ χ. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485b; ἡδύ [prev. author] “Tht.” 209e, +others)]; μάλιστα χρημάτων most of anything, i. e. certainly, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Anonymus “Oxy.” 1611.68 (3rd c.AD);compare χρέος 11.2.)]
II.3 used in periphrases to express something strange or extraordinary of its kind, ὑὸς χ. μέγα a huge monster of a boar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.36; ἦν τοῦ χειμῶνος χ. ἀφόρητον [prev. author] 7.188)]; τὸ χ. τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον what a business the nights are! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 2)]; λιπαρὸν τὸ χ. τῆς πόλεως what a grand city! [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 826, compare “Lys.” 83)]; κλέπτον τὸ χ. τἀνδρός a thievish sort of fellow, [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 933; τὸ χ. τοῦ νοσήματος [prev. author] “Lys.” 1085)]; μακάριον.. λέγεις τυράννου χ. your tyrant-creature, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567e; χ. θαυμαστὸν γυναικός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 31)]: without a genitive, ἔλαφον, καλόν τι χ. καὶ μέγα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.8)]; σοφόν τοι χρῆμ᾽ ἄνθρωπος truly a clever creature is he! [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.83)]; κοῦφον χ. ποιητής ἐστιν καὶ πτηνὸν καὶ ἱερόν, of the poet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 534b)]; χ. καλόν τι such a fine thing! [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.23)]; also in a periphrastic use, οὐδὲν χ. τοῦ ἀγκῶνος κάμψαι δύνανται cannot bend the elbow at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 42.)]
II.3.b so, to express a great number or mass, as we say, a deal, a heap of.., πολλόν τι χ. τῶν τέκνων, χ. πολλὸν ἀρδίων, νεῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.109, 4.81, 6.43; χ. πολλόν τι χρυσοῦ [prev. author] 3.130; σμικρὸν τὸ χ. τοῦ βίου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 953)]; ὅσον τὸ χ. παρνόπων what a lot of locusts! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 150; ὅσον τὸ χ. τοῦ πλακοῦντος [prev. author] “Eq.” 1219; πολὺ χ. τεμαχῶν [prev. author] “Pl.” 894)]; τὸ χ. τῶν κόπων ὅσον what a lot of them! [Refs ([prev. author] “Ra.” 1278; τῶν λαμπάδων ὅσον τὸ χ. [prev. author] “Th.” 281)]; also of persons, χ. θηλειῶν womankind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 198; σφενδονητῶν πάμπολύ τι χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.5; μέγα χ. Λακαινᾶν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.4: without a _genitive_, ὅσον τὸ χ. ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἦλθε)] what a crowd.. ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1192.)]
III (χράω (B) A) oracle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 115.1.)]
(χράομαι):— need, in the phrase παρὰ χ. or παραχρῆμα (which see); a thing that one needs or uses,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.9f (_plural_))]: hence in plural, goods, property (χρήματα λέγομεν πάντα ὅσων ἡ ἀξία νομίσματι μετρεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b26), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.78, 203, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 320, 407, etc.)]; of temple-treasures, heirlooms, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Mnemos.” 57.208 (Argos, 6th c.BC))]; τὰ ἱρὰ χ. τῆς Ἀθηναίης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28, compare 9.81; θησαυρούς.. ἄλλα τε χρύσεα ἄφατα χ. [prev. author] 7.190; πολλῶν χ. ἐξαίρετον ἄνθος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 954; πειρῶ τὸν πλοῦτον χρήματακαὶ κτήματα κατασκευάζειν· ἔστι δὲ χ. μὲν τοῖς ἀπολαύειν ἐπισταμένοις, κ. δὲ τοῖς κτᾶσθαι δυναμένοις 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.28; τοῖς σκεύεσι καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν ἀποθήκη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.97)]; πρόβατα καὶ ἄλλα χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.4; τὰ ἀνδράποδα.. καὶ χρήματα τὰ πλεῖστα ἀπέδρα αὐτούς [prev. work] 7.8.12: proverbial, χρήματα ψυχὴ πέλεται.. βροτοῖσι)] a man's money is his life, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 686)]; χρήματ᾽ ἄνηρ 'money makes the man', [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 49, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.11; ἐν χρήμασιν οἰκεῖ πατρώοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 757, compare “Ch.” 135; also χρημάτων πένητες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 37; τὰ χρήματ᾽ ἐνεχυράζομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 241; χρήματα πορίζειν [prev. author] “Ec.” 236; ἄτιμοι ἦσαν τὰ σώματα, τὰ δὲ χ. εἶχον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.74; χρημάτων ἥσσων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 50; χρημάτων κρείσσων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; χρήμασι νικώμενος [prev. passage]; χρημάτων ἀδωρότατος [prev. work] 65; ἐλπίδα χρήμασιν ὠνητήν [prev. author] 3.40; μήτε χρημάτων φειδομένους μήτε πόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 78a; ζημιοῦσθαι χρήμασιν [prev. author] “Lg.” 721b)]; even of debts, διαλῦσαι τὰ χ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.12; δεθέντ᾽ ἐπὶ χρήμασιν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ [prev. author] 24.168.—Acc. to 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.87 the _Ionic dialect_ used also the _sing._ in this sense, and so we find, ἐπὶ κόσῳ ἂν χρήματι..)]; for how much money.. ? Answ. ἐπ᾽ οὐδενί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.38; ταύτην (i.e. τὴν χλανίδα) πωλέω μὲν οὐδενὸς χ. δίδωμι δὲ ἄλλως [prev. work] 139)]; also in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 197)], χ. δ᾽ ὃ μὲν Διόθεν καὶ σὺν δίκῃ ἀνδρὶ γένητα; in Attic dialect, οὐδενὸς ἂν χ. δεξάμενοι at no price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.4)]; and in later Prose, fund, sum of money, Arch. f. Religionswiss.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (10.211 (Cos, 2nd c.BC))]; τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ χ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.106, cf. NT.Act.4.37, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.20; χρήματα)]merchandise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 90, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.37, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.74)]; property, substance, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.161 (from Cyrene).)]
II generally, thing, matter, affair, especially in Epic dialect and Ionic dialect, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 332, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 344, 402; χρημάτων ἄελπτον οὐδέν 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 74; πάντων χ. δικαιότατον 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 8; πρῶτον χρημάτων πάντων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.145)]; ἀντὶ πάντων χ. on every account, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.21; δεινότατον ἁπάντων χρημάτων [prev. work] 1)]; πᾶν χ. ἐκίνεε 'left no stone unturned', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.96)]; τεκμαίρει χρῆμ᾽ ἕκαστον 'deeds show the man', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.74; πάντων χ. μέτρον ἄνθρωπος 5th c.BC: Protagoras Philosophus 1)]; περαίνεται τὸ χ. the issue is being decided, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 47)]: plural, simply, things, ὁμοῦ πάντα χ. ἦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 440a, “Euthd.” 294d, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.2.1.)]
II.2 χρῆμα is frequently expressed where it might be omitted, δεινὸν χ. ἐποιεῦντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.16; οἷόν τι χ. ποιήσειε [prev. work] 138)]; ἐς ἀφανὲς χ. ἀποστέλλειν ἀποικίην to send out a colony without any certain destination, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.150)]; frequently in Trag., τί χρῆμ; ={τί}; what? τί χ. λεύσσ; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 300, “Ch.” 10)]; or why? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 512)]; so in genitive, τοῦ χ. (i.e. ἕνεκα); [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1223; τί χ. δρᾷ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 288, compare “Ph.” 1231; τί χ. πάσχε; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 909)]; τί δ᾽ ἐστὶ χρῆμ; what is the matter? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 885; πικρόν τί μοι δοκεῖ χ. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485b; ἡδύ [prev. author] “Tht.” 209e, +others)]; μάλιστα χρημάτων most of anything, i. e. certainly, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Anonymus “Oxy.” 1611.68 (3rd c.AD);compare χρέος 11.2.)]
II.3 used in periphrases to express something strange or extraordinary of its kind, ὑὸς χ. μέγα a huge monster of a boar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.36; ἦν τοῦ χειμῶνος χ. ἀφόρητον [prev. author] 7.188)]; τὸ χ. τῶν νυκτῶν ὅσον what a business the nights are! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 2)]; λιπαρὸν τὸ χ. τῆς πόλεως what a grand city! [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 826, compare “Lys.” 83)]; κλέπτον τὸ χ. τἀνδρός a thievish sort of fellow, [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 933; τὸ χ. τοῦ νοσήματος [prev. author] “Lys.” 1085)]; μακάριον.. λέγεις τυράννου χ. your tyrant-creature, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567e; χ. θαυμαστὸν γυναικός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 31)]: without a genitive, ἔλαφον, καλόν τι χ. καὶ μέγα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.8)]; σοφόν τοι χρῆμ᾽ ἄνθρωπος truly a clever creature is he! [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.83)]; κοῦφον χ. ποιητής ἐστιν καὶ πτηνὸν καὶ ἱερόν, of the poet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 534b)]; χ. καλόν τι such a fine thing! [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.23)]; also in a periphrastic use, οὐδὲν χ. τοῦ ἀγκῶνος κάμψαι δύνανται cannot bend the elbow at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 42.)]
II.3.b so, to express a great number or mass, as we say, a deal, a heap of.., πολλόν τι χ. τῶν τέκνων, χ. πολλὸν ἀρδίων, νεῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.109, 4.81, 6.43; χ. πολλόν τι χρυσοῦ [prev. author] 3.130; σμικρὸν τὸ χ. τοῦ βίου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 953)]; ὅσον τὸ χ. παρνόπων what a lot of locusts! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 150; ὅσον τὸ χ. τοῦ πλακοῦντος [prev. author] “Eq.” 1219; πολὺ χ. τεμαχῶν [prev. author] “Pl.” 894)]; τὸ χ. τῶν κόπων ὅσον what a lot of them! [Refs ([prev. author] “Ra.” 1278; τῶν λαμπάδων ὅσον τὸ χ. [prev. author] “Th.” 281)]; also of persons, χ. θηλειῶν womankind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 198; σφενδονητῶν πάμπολύ τι χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.5; μέγα χ. Λακαινᾶν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.4: without a _genitive_, ὅσον τὸ χ. ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἦλθε)] what a crowd.. ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1192.)]
III (χράω (B) A) oracle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 115.1.)]